Late but True Love

Gemma Sully's stepsister arranges for her to spend a night with a stranger, and then makes sure people know. Her fiancé breaks off the engagement, and she becomes the joke of the city. Her mother is seriously ill and needs surgery money quickly. Gemma goes to her father for it. He tells her to sleep with an old man for the fee. She marries a stranger instead, on the day she asks, because he agrees to pay the hospital bills. She takes him for a good-looking man of no particular importance. He is from an old family and holds a great deal of power. The marriage she expected to be another kind of punishment turns into being indulged. He tells her there is no putting up with things in his world, only doing as you please, and that she should use her position with him fully. "Mrs. Zhou, we met late. The rest of it is only you."